Breast Cancer Drugs

Thangam Debbonaire Excerpts

Thursday 26th January 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mrs Hodgson]

I agree. What price can be put on those precious months?

[Thangam Debbonaire (Bristol West) (Lab)]

I have some investment in this. My own experience of breast cancer treatment over the last two years has left me passionate about the issue of prevention and early diagnosis. Will my hon. Friend join me in not just thanking the breast cancer charities—as she has already done—but calling on all Members to spread the word among all the women they know that they must learn how to examine their breasts? I learnt how to do it from a comic sketch in a television programme: that is how I diagnosed my lump. I want everyone to learn how to do it, and also to learn what they can do to help prevent breast cancer, because, although there is no magic prevention method, there are ways of reducing the risk.